10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

A watermelon should sound hollow when tapped and feel heavy for its size. Watermelon is usually served chilled for maximum refreshment. Serve simply in easy-to-eat wedges or remove the skin and ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Fusako Shigenobu, leader of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group that went on an international hijacking and kidnapping spree about a half century ago, will be released from prison on May 28.

On a recent weekday, a group of seven non-Japanese students headed for a blood donation site in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward operated by the Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Metropolitan Blood Center.

Watermelon is the best known fresh source of lycopene, a powerful antioxidant responsible for its red color. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for chronic disease and premature death.

The co-founder of the Japanese Red Army militant group has been freed from prison after serving 20 years for her part in a 1974 embassy siege. Fusako Shigenobu, 76, had evaded capture for decades ...

My 8-year-old, Michael, had me concerned. He was finishing up third grade and still sucked his thumb. "What can I do to make him stop?" I asked my pediatrician. His grandmother had been successful ...

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